July 18th, 2015 | Detroit Free Press

Sixty-seven Michigan restaurants have been named recipients of Wine Spectator's 2015 Restaurant Awards, including 10 that achieved the Best of Award of Excellence, the second-highest level of recognition.

Sixty-seven Michigan restaurants have been named recipients of Wine Spectator's 2015 Restaurant Awards, including 10 that achieved the Best of Award of Excellence, the second-highest level of recognition.

The 10, in alphabetical order, are Butch's Dry Dock in Holland; Capital Grille in Troy; Coach Insignia in downtown Detroit; the Earle in Ann Arbor; Esperance in Charlevoix; the Lark in West Bloomfield; Noto's Old World Italian Dining in Grand Rapids; Rowe Inn in Ellsworth; the State Room at MSU's Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in East Lansing, and Steven Lelli's on the G10 of the state's eateries are among the 973 worldwide to earn the Best of Award of Excellence reen in Farmington Hills.

The names of all Michigan winners are available online on the magazine's Restaurant Search page; type "Michigan" in the search field.

In all, 973 restaurants worldwide earned the Best of Award of Excellence for offering "a wine list of typically 350 or more quality selections with significant vintage depth or superior breadth in one or more major wine regions," Wine Spectator said.

Some 2,563 restaurants nationwide earned the third-highest level of recognition — the Award of Excellence — "which recognizes a wine list offering an interesting and diverse selection of wines that are well-presented and thematically match the restaurant's cuisine in price and style," according to the magazine.

Eighty-one restaurants around the world received the Grand Award, the highest honor, denoting lists of generally more than 1,000 wines. No Michigan restaurants are Grand Award members.

The 2015 awards list will be published in Wine Spectator's August issue, on newsstands July 21.

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